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Definition of Substantivally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substantivally
Literary usage of Substantivally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"Its. This form is now never used substantivally, but I imagine that its first
appearance in the language was in the train of hers, ours, yours, ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1888)
"... is used substantivally of " a ruler," almost always of spiritual office, in
Luke xxii. 26 ; Acts vii. 10, perhaps xiv. 12, xv. 22, and in Hebrews xiii. ..."
3. Ontology Or the Theory of Being: An Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"... being" considered substantivally as essential (whether possible or actual),
and not merely being that is actually existent, existential being, ..."
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